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• a  of or relating to a preparation that gradually releases an active substance (especially a drug) over a period of time

• Friend of Blue Dogs, cost controls, and time-release capsules.
• Berde and his colleagues at Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have patented time-release beads that contain a commonly used drug, bupivacaine.
• When OxyContin, a time-release version of the opioid oxycodone, was introduced in 1995, drug addicts learned to grind up the pills to get a quick, intense high; in pockets of .

News & Articles

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• Progress for Staten Island prescription drug epidemic: Drug makers heed new restrictions
  Canadian firm's new version of the time-release medication, called Rexista, has gone through various clinical trials, and also is resistant to chewing, crushing or other methods of breaking it down for an immediate high.
  July 15, 2013 - Staten Island Advance